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Your current thermostats probably talk to the AC controller, which then controls the ducts. So a nest thermostat shouldn't need to make any accommodations for the duct stuff.
Your're probably right, but maybe it doesn't matter? Voice traffic is a diminishing percentage of overall cellular traffic. LTE optimizes for the increasing majority of traffic - data.

There are extra advantages to LTE -- for example, T-Mobile is using it to make it so that you can seamlessly handover phone calls between cell towers and wifi access points (using IMS, not VoLTE). Previously this was only possible via complex technology embedded in the phone's baseband (UMA).

More calls routed over wifi means less cell utilization.
Looks like Business Insider is sneaking it's way onto the HN frontpage.
Uh, no. The article points out the metronomes are on a suspended table. Each metronome adds energy to the table in phase with its cycle, as more metronomes get into phase, their summed energy edition begins to push back on other metronomes bringing them all into alignment. By the end of the video you can see the table is oscillating exactly out of phase with the metronomes as expected by that point.
The device offers many features current lock-and-key models don't, and can be used by a wide variety of people (whereas you cant use custom locks for apartments). Your analogy above really makes no sense.

But going back to your original post, at least two of your drawbacks were wrong, and the others seemed to be nay saying for simply the joy of doing so. A DDOS attack on someones wireless to stop them from getting in?

A) Something that wouldn't have affected the lock since Bluetooth and NFC works

B) A targeted scenario that might as well be "well locks don't protect against rocks thrown through windows!

Why use a laptop to write notes (that requires your laptop to have power/working correctly) when a simple pen and paper will do? We can trivialize anything using that methodology.
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The original article is here: http://allthingsd.com/20121001/mashery-is-the-latest-to-be-s...
Step one: stop and think what you liked and why. GMail worked for you. Why? The reason it works for me is MH-like semantics, proper MIME handling, and distributed/"cloud based" storage.

I'd take a locally hosted solution in a heartbeat. (Even if I did have to write hooks for calendar integration.)
The new microsoft.com. I went through the hover menu and went for "See all products". Then instead of showing me the page I asked for, it asked me to sign up, with no way to go back.

I went back and tried again. Impossible to access the page I requested without signing up.

Too bad. I've been a happy Linux user for the past 10 years but I'm always curious about what others have to offer. They don't want me to see, fine. Sorry Microsoft, I won't sign up, I won't see your product, and you lost me again for the next 10 years.

Just as you did with the new outlook.com, by asking me to either {0} [1] or give my phone number.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/auM4J.png
Slight tangent, there was a kid (maybe 15?) a while back doing an automated content summariser for mobile and he was all over the tech sites for being incredible after getting an investment, but I can't for the life of me remember the name and I want to see his project again. Does anyone recall his name or the company? All I can remember is a chinese (maybe russian) firm invested in him and he was young.

edit: found it! "Summly", looks like their site is down :(
I'm actually a subscriber! How did you get readers? Just by word of mouth?

And do you think it can be as successful if you only send the email once every two weeks or so? Or does it have to be an every day thing?
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I do the same thing (though I call it "Fancy Friday") and I strongly suggest that you try it if you're at all curious.
Those paying for Aspen were notified by a personal email from me along with direct lines for support. We've been increasing our deprecation measures on the platform and we are ramping up communication to all application owners. This blog post is one of those steps.

All unpaid apps are put to sleep when not in use to save us costs and to allow us to continue to off a free tier. (you can get rid of this sleep functionality by adding an extra dyno). Getting rid of in-active apps really doesn't buy us mutch, maybe a few megabytes of hard-drive space.

We are interested in all developers having a quality experience on Heroku and this includes the migrating experience. We differentiate between "production" and "development" quality applications in a number of areas such as https://status.heroku.com. We consider a production application to have at least 2 dynos, and a non-shared database. At the end of the day we are not a free service. We will go above and beyond when possible by offering personal support to those who need and value it the most.

I would like to add that the number of users of Aspen is incredibly small. If you don't know already, you probably don't have one.
User growth and user engagement often tend to be mutually conflicting goals.
Pro tip: Never read the comments on Kotaku.

You're welcome.
Simply to get an idea of how Heroku plans to sunset projects/platforms. Making the jump from free to paid not only means a commitment from you but also from the payer. Granted most apps are easily migrated but I'm curious how many apps were done by small(or outsourced) staff where the owner just expects the app to "just work...for a long,long time." Hence, the reason why Microsoft has such wonderfully(or excruciatingly) long support lifetimes.

I don't have a paid application so maybe you've touched on some of this in your letter and also details of the extension support you mentioned.

You sent this from a personal account? Meaning...not @heroku.com? Is there no formal notification/support e-mail that Heroku uses?
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No, it's well that you avoided "considered harmful".
Some interesting stats.

Is this just in the Apple app store? If so do Android versions of the apps in question also see similar trends?
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Hmm, let's not "fuck the standards bodies"
How can you even tell if something like Minecraft is buggy or not?
thats completely not true. I've worked professionally with both C# & Java (at enterprise level) but my current job uses primarily PHP for development - i feel very comfortable with it and i'm more efficient in it than doing the same web development in eiher of the two languages.

I also touched ruby and python but I don't consider them part of my knowledge since I didn't really use them professionally and thats why I don't want to include them in my statement above.
What the hell is Quora?
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What PHP needs is the ability to run websockets natively without extra setup. Right in a mod_php or PHP-FPM. None of the current platforms have this right. You always have to run extra web servers in place of Apache or Nginx. Yes, this is also a thing that Apache, and Nginx have to figure out. Running node.js or Go web servers is too immature.
Lockitron guys: I would love a similar device for my garage door! Perhaps even integrated into one since most front door deadbolts are going to be within range of a garage door opener. It could support standard Genie/Liftmaster and get 80% of the market.
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I love this idea of encouraging people to both take a little time for themselves and for others! It may seem like a sacrifice to lose 2 work days a month, but you may find that those 2 days allow you to be more focused and productive during the rest of the month.
Has to be an every day thing.

New readers.. it's a mixed bag. Word of mouth, content shares, cross-promos, etc.

(And thanks for reading!)
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Definite "+1" ... or maybe "+100"... to consistency. That is the key. Look at anyone who you consider a "successful" blogger and I think what you will find is that the key point is that they keep showing up with new posts. And doing so on a regular basis (which for some is daily, some weekly, but most at least a couple of times a week).
You're being prejudiced against transvestites.
Empirically? Where is the research?
First, congrats on taking the plunge and much success to you. Overall it's a well done site, so these are only minor things:

Bring more attention to the services & certificates in the footer. Some graphic/logos from Sun for example.

Put Portfolio before Team in the nav. I know team should come first :P But Portfolio is what a new visitor is going to look for immediately (I did). You may have Portfolio pushed back because it isn't extensive yet, and if so, I can understand that.

In that same vein, add Portfolio to the graphical nav on the homepage for consistency.

(On English language) Was going to mention some spelling errors but I see they're being corrected.
"PUA tactics are socially commendable or envious"

I wasn't aware that they were, to any gender.
Agreed, especially since sequences is a more powerful tool with a wider use than auto increment. For example you can use the same sequence for multiple tables, or use them without being connected to any table.
This is a pre-order page for the second iteration of Lockitron.

The new version comes with two-way communication, Bluetooth 4 for offline access, and a host of other features.

We're not taking money for pre-orders; we're establishing how many to make.
You are indeed being trolled. Through the years I have learned to avoid PHP haters all along. While they are wasting their time trying to prove they are better, you are probably getting things done or just enjoying your day because you have already finished.
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Name one field with low social prestige that has a record number amount of women entering it.

Remember, the software industry is where "nerds" go, but the "smart money" is in finance and the "creme of the crop" is in finance.

My thinking is that in aggregate women choose to go to the highest paying, and most socially prestigious fields: law, medicine, finance, sciences in that order.
They mention that they must sell 1,000 for them to go into production (near the bottom).
Growth matters because Quora raised a ton of venture capital and needs to eventually generate revenue to justify the high valuation, and there's a limit on revenue/user they expect to generate. Simplified version of web apps' revenue calculation:

Total revenue = revenue per user * no. of users

There's an upper bound on how much each user generates in revenue (either through ads, subscriptions), e.g. imagine paying > $200/yr to use Quora, unlikely that more than 100,000 people are willing to do that. So the fastest way to grow is through having more users. On top of pure revenue/user number, there's the network effects of having more users, as well as becoming a key part of cultural fabric e.g. most celebrities have Twitter accounts now.
My bank does do this. Has since before 2000. If the receiver wasn't modern enough to receive the amount electronically, the bank would print and mail a check. Seriously.
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Long term, it looks like storage is getting cheaper faster than (human population)*(transactions/person) is growing. That might take a couple decades before it's practical, though.
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With the Bluetooth 4 radio it only relies on a Bluetooth 4 enabled device (like your phone) and the door lock itself.
Thanks for writing! Sorry to keep asking questions, but why does it have to be any every day thing?

At least for me, the quality of the content goes down significantly if I have to do it any more than once every couple of weeks. Really impressed that you're able to keep it up :)
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I like the monthly report too. Being able to adjust both the Nests from the comfort of my couch via the phone app is also a nice feature.
The margin on sales varies a lot depending whether we sell the product (best margin) or whether a retailer orders a thousand units (worst margin).

We are the manufacturers. :)
That looks pretty rad. Would be great for prototyping.
As long as they're funny. The more potentially offensive a joke, the sweeter the payoff if the teller hits the right note, and the harder it is to do so.
Agree with you there
That's correct. 1MB has a lot more to do with the mechanics of moving validated data across a peer to peer network than anything else.
I don't understand why you're so negative. It's a new product that has new benefits, and new drawbacks. The same could be said about the calculator when it first came out. You couldn't even compute logarithms on the first calculator model, but the slide rule had no problems. Most people were faster using the slide rule so it felt like the calculator was a backwards technological progression.

Should we try to innovate on the calculator or go back to using slide rules?
But let's be serious about the purpose of HN. It's to give PG and YC a direct advertising channel to people who care about the startup world. Maintaining a high level of discussion is just a tool to further that end, especially because as an advertising vehicle, a site's reputation is hugely important. Also, HN by itself is not a money-making product. Quora is.

The problem with Quora is that, more than any other social network in existence, their product is their customers. Quora doesn't have a product without high quality discussion on their site. The problem is that the steps required in maintaining that high level of discussion(active moderation, good community policing, etc.) often directly opposes actively getting more users because of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. While I'm sure that Quora can grow their userbase more, I'm pretty sure that they're seeing a dropoff in total hits. At a certain point, they need to start improving their conversion rate in order to make more money.
Thanks flexxaeon! Everything was put up in a rush really, we will definitely work more on our copy. I wonder whether you find the name "Codedose" somehow weird or just too quirky?
Must've been a bug. I just went to the "All Windows Products" page and it didn't ask for a signup.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products
Can we take a look at the data you analyzed to come to that conclusion?
CFEngine vs. Puppet: huge difference in scalability
The US dollar is not the platform that helps you to pay something.

It is the thing that you pay, with or without using the help of a platform to do so.

Can you really not understand the difference?
Unless you use the TFTP bootloader: http://arduino.cc/playground/Code/TFTPBootloader1
Not only has there yet to be a feature on Airtime that is cool or unique, but there has yet to be mention of any future idea that sounds like it solves a problem. What problem is Airtime trying to solve? This guy needs PG office hours in the worst kind of way.

On top of that, he said his party was "scrappy" by comparing it to that of a company who does more in revenue every month than the $30M his company raised in total. I would hope you'd spend less than a company bringing in near a billion dollars this year. It was still a massive waste of money, was off-putting to a ton of early adopters, and was just a large amount of lipstick on a pig, just as the marketing video they made was a cheap imitation of the innovative one by Dollar Shave Club.

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to keep touting Parker's startups as industry disruptions. Given their life cycles and profitability issues, perhaps interruptions is a more appropriate term.
The question is, who's going to buy a Q&A site with a small user base for $400MM+?
If true, this signals a huge shift in WinPhone strategy. Up until Microsoft's (ostensible) goal has been to secure a place for a proprietary, commercial OS that runs on OEM hardware (pretty much the Windows model on mobile).

Microsoft jumping in with their own devices would probably signal the end of that, and the whole business will become much more Apple-like (vertically integrated, no OEMs). I can't imagine an OEM wanting to sleep in Microsoft's bed when they're going toe to toe with the people who build the OS themselves.

IMO, the right move, and was the right move from the get-go. When you put the software at arms-length from the hardware, the results speak for themselves, and branding suffers.
As a former quora user, I definitely did not get the impression that they "recognized they crossed the line on that one." The impression I did get however was that the "views feature" was very much a consciously thought out decision, as I would assume most decisions are that are made in the context of building a company with millions of invested dollars in it. I also got the impression that they clung for dear life to that ill-intentioned decision, until their folly was making headlines for one-too-many days, and they made another decision to feign like they had no idea people wouldn't like strangers and friends knowing what they read in their private time.

That's just my impression though. As a former quora user.
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I'm reminded of Klaus Kinski, who wanted to make Paganini desperately, but couldn't convince Werner Herzog it was a good idea. Kinski ultimately made it himself, and it's supposedly quite bad (I haven't seen it). At least that's the impression My Best Fiend gives.

Then again, Clerks was famously paid for by a bunch of credit cards. I guess there's an exception to every rule.
Meijer and Fred Meyer. That pretty much leaves Costco and Target not selling ammunition.

I agree that rural outposts are going away, but I would guess there are still hundreds and hundreds of them.
I don't know if that will help. You can already lock down iOS pretty tightly for kids. It's the apps themselves that are the problem.

There's just a huge, annoying trend of making apps crippled or annoyware until you buy some ridiculous IAP. AFAIK, that situation is not much different on Kindle/Android.
This stings a bit because I've been [slowly] building basically the same thing!

Any particular reason you guys went with Express/Mongo?
>whithout [...] going off to another website and then clicking tl;dr.

I had the same feeling, but then I clicked tl;dr on the page where they show you how to add the bookmarklet !
A little more context for the quote:

We all knew one of the commonsense edicts of Hollywood is “never invest in your own movie." But I did it anyway.

-- Garry Marshall, My Happy Days in Hollywood [1]

A few of the many well-known movies that are self-financed: Blair Witch Project, Clerks, most Robert Rodriguez movies[2], the upcoming Cloud Atlas by the Wachowskis. Self-financing might still lead to low odds of success (probably difficult to properly study this), but it seems to me there are enough success stories to question the "never" advice.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=X3eXiLG9WnIC&pg=PA196&#...

[2] http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/robert-rodriguez-talk...
Exactly. Especially if a site wants to get a permanent spot in my browser, it must demonstrate its value upfront. And without some good examples this is not going to happen.
Annoyed and disappointed that some people seem incapable of viewing a subject, and humour about a subject, as distinct phenomena.
seems inspired by this: http://www.ashmaurya.com/2010/08/businessmodelcanvas/
Seems to just be down because of an upgrade: https://twitter.com/Summly
Yeah its just App Store. We didn't really have a chance to bundle such stats for Android apps yet but I'm pretty sure the results will be pretty similar.
Continuously connected? No. We'd last about two weeks.

We poll infrequently during off hours and more frequently when people are likely to be coming and going. Knocking also wakes it up.

Bluetooth 4.0 gets us the rest of the way. It's instant for iPhone 4s and 5 users and we should have rudimentary support for the Android devices with BT4 by March.
Your top-level comment's last statement was, in a way, a personal attack on every PHP developer on here.
Credit cards can be used by any thief, hacking tools cannot. A Lockitron hack tool would likely be more in the realm of Metasploit. I'm not saying there won't be hackers/thieves who could do it, just comparing to stolen credit cards is silly.
The US Supreme Court has shaved the 4th Amendment pretty thin in the last few years. See http://www.fourthamendmentsummaries.com/, "1990s cases" and "Cases after 2000" - there aren't very many of them. One case not mentioned on that web site is last year's "FBI can't track cars by GPS without a warrant" decision, which was made on trespassing grounds.

The US Supreme Court has taken a very legalistic view of what constitutes "search and seizure", what constitutes "in public" and what constitutes "private". These views don't coincide with common usage of any of the words or phrases, so yes, most people would be shocked to find out how they've been snooped on.

But I doubt the current Supreme Court will do anything other than allow it, on some weird technical basis that only lawyers and judges can understand or love.
I had a thought related to this earlier today. What if I wrote for myself one year ago? Meaning, what if I considered the questions I had a year ago and articulated the answer back to myself at that point in time?

A friend shared a great bit wisdom a few months back: there will always be someone who is one step in front of you and one step behind you.

Since I look to writing to help others, what if I write for that person who is one step behind (i.e. myself one year ago)?
Lest anyone forget how hard startups are, here is some proven talent armed with tons of cash that is struggling nonetheless.